4 This is mostly a bugfix release.
6 * A huge number of bug fixes, including a security relavant one (low
8 * Add two new configuration directives "allow-interfaces" and
9 "deny-interfaces" which can be used to make Avahi ignore certain
10 network interfaces or only use certain network interfaces.
11 * A lot of translation updates
13 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 24.
18 This is an bugfix release.
20 * A lot of translation updates
21 * Beef up bnvc quite a bit, including passing a domain to browse in
23 * Increase numer of open files resource limit to 300 so that we can
24 deal with more clients simultaneously.
25 * Rework 'poof' algorithm a bit to reduce traffic load on noisy links.
29 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 23.
31 Please note that Avahi's SVN has been converted to GIT and is now
32 available on git://git.0pointer.de/avahi.
37 This is an important bugfix release, and adds a couple of new
41 * Documentation and example code updates
42 * Support for registering the Avahi documentation in devhelp (needs
44 * Added a new component libavahi-gobject, which is a GObjectified
45 version of the Avahi API, contributed by Sjoerd Simons
46 * Major BSD compatibility improvements, contributed by "zml"
47 * avahi-ui: Allow overwriting of pretty service name by the
49 * Service type database updates
50 * Add new option --parsable to avahi-browse
53 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 22.
58 This is an important bugfix release.
60 * Make avahi-autoipd actually produce correct ARP packets
61 (Identified and patched by Pauline Yeung)
62 * Add FreeBSD kqueue support for watching /etc/avahi/services
63 (Contributed by Marcus Clarke)
64 * Use search domain from /etc/resolv.conf as additional browse
66 * No longer return a conflict error when two local applications
67 register identical RRs.
68 * Properly find alternative service/host names for very long names
69 * DNS name compression fix (Sjoerd Simons)
70 * Fedora init script order fix
71 * Several fixes to make gcc produce less warnings
72 * Minor documentation and build fixes
74 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 21.
79 This is a bugfix release and contains a fix for a low risk security
82 * Fix a local DoS vulnerability, where an assert() could be hit by
83 passing empty TXT data over D-Bus to the Avahi daemon. (Low Risk)
84 * Solaris/dbm portability fixes
85 * Close all open file descriptors when daemonizing. Is generally
86 safer and fixes a few issues with broken init systems of several
88 * avahi-autoipd: allow passing the path of the action script on the
90 * Several minor build fixes and other cleanups
92 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 20.
97 This is a bugfix release, but also adds a new component "avahi-ui-sharp".
99 * Rename zssh/zvnc to bssh/bvnc to avoid a name collision with another
100 free software tool, on request of the Debian developers. I hope
101 this name change early in the life of bssh/bvnc won't be too
102 difficult to handle by the distributors.
103 * Add man page for bssh/bvnc
104 * avahi-ui: fix segfault when browsing in empty domains
105 * avahi-ui: allow GTK_RESPONSE_OK, _YES and _APPLY besides _ACCEPT as
106 positive dialog response codes
107 * avahi-ui-sharp: Add Mono/C# API wrapper for avahi-ui
108 * Don't pick the first and the last 256 IP addresses from the IPV4LL
109 range in avahi-autoipd, as required by RC3927 section 2.1
110 * No longer publish the Avahi service identification cookie anymore
111 by default. It was a bad idea in the first place. A better
112 replacement will hopefully be made available in Avahi eventually.
113 * Properly set umask before writing to /var/lib/avahi-autoipd
114 * Update .deskop files to work around KDE menu issue
115 * Various build fixes and other minor fixes and updates
117 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 19.
122 This is a bugfix release, adds a few new features and includes a new
125 * Add a new library libavahi-ui which contains a standard Gtk dialog
126 for browsing for services, and a new tool "zssh" that makes use of
127 it, which allows browsing for SSH and VNC servers and starts ssh or
128 xvncviewer if one item is selected.
129 * avahi-autoipd has been ported to FreeBSD (original patch from Bruce M Simpson)
130 * Improve OpenBSD, Solaris, MacOS X compatibility
131 * Linux inotify support for monitoring /etc/avahi/services/ and
132 /etc/avahi/hosts for changes. (Original patch from "behanw")
133 * Add the ability to dump the service type database from avahi-browse
134 with the new option "-b".
135 * Enable GCC stack smashing protection if available and working (Patch from tedp)
136 * Improve compatibility with Bonjour's libdns_sd (patch from Chris Rivera)
137 * Various updates to the service type database (based on patches from uws)
138 * Fix a local DoS vulnerability (very low priority, all you can do is
139 make Avahi hit an assert()); problem identified by "jamesh"
140 * Fix a problem when constantly generating conflict events for an RR
141 * Fix registration of very large RRs (original patch from Sjoerd Simons)
142 * Various minor fixes
144 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 18.
149 This is a bugfix release.
151 * Don't accept "localhost" as a local mDNS host name
152 * Allow running avahi-bookmarks as CGI script
153 * Improve libdns_sd compatibility
154 * Stability: libdns_sd mutex locking order fix
155 * Publish IPv6 addresses via IPv4 and vice versa
157 * A lot of minor cleanups and fixes
159 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 17.
164 This is a bugfix release, it fixes one DoS (100% CPU Usage) and a regression
165 from the last release
167 * Revert previous patch to check nlmsg_pid as it is bogus and breaks in
168 many cases, notably when using NetworkManager (Closes: #72)
169 * Replace with new SO_PASSCRED-based check of the sending UID, which
170 seems to work better (Closes: #72)
171 * Handle some errors in libdns_sd more gracefully the way the real
172 libdns_sd does (Closes: #64)
173 * Apply fix for Linux 2.6.19+ where IFA_RTA / IFLA_RTA is no longer
174 defined (Closes: #86)
175 * Fix doxygen comments for avahi watch, thanks to tedp (Closes: #77)
176 * Make d-bus version detection work for >= 1.0 (Closes: #71)
177 * Dont dbus_connection_close on shared dbus connections (Closes: #68)
178 * Fix potential endless loop in dns label unpacking code (Closes: #84)
179 * Fix bogus assertion in client-publish-service.c example
180 * Mild fix to some doxygen docs for avahi-common/address.h
181 * Fix passing in custom priviledged group (previously ignored setting)
184 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 16.
189 This is a bugfix release, this bug is potentially security sensitive
191 * Check that netlink messages actually originate from the kernel
192 and not another process.
193 * Fix build on NetBSD (thanks to Daniel S. Haischt)
194 * Fix dbus_service_browser not setting AVAHI_LOOKUP_RESULT_OUR_OWN.
196 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 15.
201 This release fixes some bugs and includes a new component.
205 * Add new daemon "avahi-autoipd" which is an implementation of
206 IPv4LL as defined in RFC3927, a technology for assigning link-local IP
207 addresses without DHCP server. The same functionality has been available on
208 Windows under the name APIPA. While it is not the first implemenatation of
209 this technology for Free operating systems it is clearly the most powerful
210 and hopefully even the most secure. (Because it chroot()s and drops
211 priviliges and suchlike) For more information, especially about packaging
212 this new tool for distributions, please make sure to read:
213 http://avahi.org/wiki/AvahiAutoipd
214 and of course the man page included in the tarball. For the rationale for
215 adding this program to the Avahi toolset please read this mailing list
217 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/avahi/2006-September/000863.html
218 * Fix a segfault in the code handling static host name registrations
219 * Add a few new entries to the service type database
221 * Documentation updates
222 * Fix service type database building on Solaris
223 * Make use of newer D-Bus APIs
224 * Fix random seed initialization
225 * Install SFTP static service file by default
226 * Other minor code cleanups
228 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 14.
230 Please note that this version doesn't compile on NetBSD, patches
233 Please note that avahi-autoipd is available on Linux only for
234 now. Patches welcome. It is recommended to pass --disable-autoipd to
235 "configure" on non-Linux operating systems, otherwise the build will
241 This release fixes some bugs and includes minor enhancements.
244 * Add a new D-Bus method for changing the mDNS host name during
245 runtime. This functionality is only available to members of the
246 UNIX group "netdev", which is the same access group that is
247 enforced by GNOME's NetworkManager daemon. Since NM will probably
248 be the most prominent user of this new method, we decided to limit
249 access to the same group. The access group can be set by passing
250 --with-avahi-priv-access-group= to "configure". If you need more
251 sophisticated access control you can freely edit
252 /etc/dbus/system.d/avahi-dbus.conf.
253 * Add a new utility "avahi-set-host-name" which is a command line
254 wrapper around the aforementioned SetHostName() method.
255 * Bonjour API compatibility library:
256 * Implement DNSServiceUpdateRecord()
257 * Allow passing NULL as callback function for
259 * Implement subtype registration in DNSServiceRegister() in a
260 way that is compatible with Bonjour.
261 * Update to newer copy of dns_sd.h
262 * If the host name changes update names of static services wich
264 * Don't build documentation about embedding the Avahi mDNS stack into
265 other programs by default. This is a feature used only by embedded
266 developers. Pass --enable-core-docs to "configure" to enable
267 building these docs, like in Avahi <= 0.6.12.
268 * Build Qt documentation only when Qt support is enabled in
269 the configuration. Same for GLib.
270 * Change algorithm used to find a new host name on conflict. In
271 Avahi <= 0.6.12 a conflicting host name of "foobar" would be
272 changed to the new name "foobar2". With 0.6.13 "foobar-2" will be
273 picked instead. This follows Bonjour's behaviour and has the
274 advantage not confusing people with regular host names ending in
276 * Don't disable all static services when SIGHUP is received.
277 * Fix build when Avahi is configured without Gtk+ but with Python
279 * Fix build on MacOS X
280 * Support using Solaris DBM instead of gdbm for the service type
281 database. The latter is still recommended
282 * Minor other fixes and documentation updates
284 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 13.
289 This is a bugfix and general cleanups release.
292 * Compatibility with newer D-Bus releases (0.9x)
293 * Compatibility with DBUS builds with --disable-checks
294 * Fix an error in the DBUS event loop wrapping which
295 caused the avahi client libraries to dispatch some events
296 too late when used with D-BUS 0.62 and newer.
297 * avahi-daemon: fix a minor memory leak in the DBUS code.
298 * avahi-glib: some GLIB adapter cleanups
299 * avahi-dnsconfd: fix segfault when passing an invalid command
301 * avahi-test: portability patches for Solaris
302 * avahi-browse: flush STDOUT after each line, making it useful
304 * update service type database
306 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 12.
311 This is a bugfix and portability release.
315 * avahi-sharp: fix a fatal error in object disposal code
316 * add a few new entries to the servivce type database
317 * fix potential crash when the daemon shuts down
318 * compatibility with newer autoconf versions
320 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2,
321 0.6.3, 0.6.4, 0.6.5, 0.6.6, 0.6.7, 0.6.9 and 0.6.10.
326 This is mostly a bugfix release. Two of the bugs fixed are security
327 sensitive: a remote denial-of-service vulnerability and a buffer
328 overflow that can allow local users to become the 'avahi' user. We do
329 not consider either of them major security threats.
331 The DoS vulnerability can be exploited from a local network only. It
332 is not worth much, though, since mDNS can easily be flooded with
333 nonsense anyway. It is easy to kick remote mDNS/DNS-SD services by
334 provoking a name conflict in perfect accordance with the specs.
336 The buffer overflow is hard to exploit remotely, only local users can
337 become the 'avahi' user. In addition the user is trapped inside a
338 chroot() environment (at least on Linux).
340 Anyhow, our security assessments are possibly as buggy as our
343 *** PLEASE UPDATE YOUR INSTALLATION ASAP! ***
346 * Fix a buffer overflow in avahi-core
347 * Refuse to process invalid UTF8 data
348 * Automatically reconnect to the DBUS if we're kicked. (Works only if
349 chroot() is disabled)
350 * Don't hit an assert() in the client libs when the Avahi daemon is
352 * Enumerate all service types in the database in the Service
353 Discovery Applet for Gnome
354 * Improve the Bonjour compatibility layer to make it survive
355 GnomeMeeting's broken usage
356 * Deal properly with local non-ASCII hostnames
357 * AMD64 and FreeBSD portability fixes
358 * Filter double DNS server entries in avahi-dnsconfd
359 * Fix a locking bug in avahi-sharp's EntryGroup.AddService()
360 * Ported to Solaris (incomplete)
361 * Add _airport._tcp to our service type database
363 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2,
364 0.6.3, 0.6.4, 0.6.5, 0.6.6, 0.6.7, 0.6.8 and 0.6.9.
369 This release fixes some bugs and includes minor enhancements.
371 * Don't allow registration of address records with invalid host names
372 * Clean up argument validity checking for AvahiHostNameResolver and
374 * Fix Avahi builds without DBUS
376 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2,
377 0.6.3, 0.6.4, 0.6.5, 0.6.6, 0.6.7 and 0.6.8.
382 This release fixes some bugs and adds a few new features. Users of 0.6.7,
385 * Fix broken parsing of static hosts file
386 * Improve out-of-the-box Debian support
387 * Add configuration option to allow mDNS over POINTOPOINT links.
388 This is a potential security hole and YMMV. See man page for details.
389 * Create $(localstatedir)/run on installation
391 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2,
392 0.6.3, 0.6.4, 0.6.5, 0.6.6 and 0.6.7.
397 This release fixes some bugs and adds a few new features
399 * Add static hosts name mappings
400 * Work around kernel bugs regarding multicast group membership
401 * ia64 portability fixes
402 * Don't require X11 to run avahi-bookmarks
403 * API: Return AVAHI_ERR_IS_EMPTY when the user tries to commit an
405 * Improved Slackware and Fedora suppport
407 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2,
408 0.6.3, 0.6.4, 0.6.5 and 0.6.6.
413 This release fixes some bugs and includes some documentation updates
415 * Add a bunch of new types to the service type database
416 * Return errors of avahi_entry_group_commit() properly
417 * Many doxygen documentation improvements
418 * Fix destruction of AvahiEntryGroup objects using
419 avahi_entry_group_free().
420 * Don't allow commiting of empty entry groups
421 * Use a little less memory in avahi-qt
422 * Don't accept empty TXT strings
423 * Update example "client-publish-service.c" to show how to modify an
426 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2,
427 0.6.3, 0.6.4 and 0.6.5.
432 This release fixes some bugs and adds a new API function.
434 * avahi-browse: properly show services that are removed from the
436 * fix build on bi-arch platforms, on GNU/kFreeBSD, on MIPS and
438 * add new API function avahi_nss_support() and DBUS function
439 IsNSSSupportAvailable() which may be used to detect whether
440 libc's gethostbyname() supports mDNS domain names.
441 * patch avahi-bookmarks to make use of
442 IsNSSSupportAvailable(). avahi-bookmarks will now generate links
443 with real hostnames instead of numeric IP addresses if mDNS support
444 is detected for gethostbyname().
445 * add init script for Mandriva Linux
446 * speed up avahi_client_free()
448 * install missing header thread-watch.h
449 * fix avahi-bookmarks to work with certain twisted versions
450 * fix record updating
451 * Use pkg-config's Requires.private directive where it makes sense
453 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2,
459 This is a bugfix release and adds a new event loop implementation to
460 avahi-common's public interface.
462 * avahi-common: add new AvahiThreadedPool event loop implementation
463 * avahi-sharp: compatibility with newer mono versions
464 * avahi-publish-service: don't ignore the port number specified
465 * avahi-sharp: correct some flags definitions
467 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2 and
470 A quick introduction how to use the new AvahiThreadedPool interface is
471 available in our Wiki:
473 http://avahi.org/wiki/RunningAvahiClientAsThread
478 This is a bugfix release. Everyone should update ASAP!
480 * avahi-sharp: make sure to append a trailing NUL byte to all C strings
481 * avahi-core: fix a double free() which occurs when wide area lookups timeout
483 This release is fully compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1 and 0.6.2.
488 This is mostly a bugfix release.
490 * Compatibility with DBUS 0.60 (Full compatibility with DBUS 0.3x and
492 * Fix introspection for some auxiliary DBUS objects
493 * Miscellaneous documentation updates
494 * Improve Autoconf support for detecting PTHREADS library
495 * Fix avahi-publish --help
496 * Workaround a DBUS limitation which might cause Avahi to die when a
497 user sends an empty TXT entry over DBUS
498 * Increase number of resolver/browser objects a DBUS client may create
499 * Remove fprintf() call in avahi_client_new()
502 This release is both up and downwards compatible with Avahi 0.6 and 0.6.1.
504 Avahi now has its own Domain (http://avahi.org) and a new Website!
506 And, most importantly, we now have a Logo:
507 http://avahi.org/chrome/site/avahi-trac.png
512 This is mostly a bugfix release.
514 * Fix a segfault when shutting down the daemon. Please note that this
515 issue was not security sensitive in any way but had the ugly side
516 effect that the daemon's PID file was not removed properly.
517 * Added init scripts for ArchLinux and FreeBSD
518 * Add DBUS API versioning through the new method GetAPIVersion()
519 * Build the HOWL compatibility library as "libhowl.so", instead of
520 "libavahi-compat-howl.so". This will help distributors to ensure
521 full API/ABI compatibility with HOWL out-of-the-box.
522 * Same for the Bonjour compatibility library
525 We encourage Linux users to update to libdaemon 0.10 since logging
526 does not work from a chroot() environment with older versions.
528 This release is fully API and ABI compatible with Avahi 0.6. This is
529 true for both the C libraries and the DBUS interface.
531 Packagers should read the new documentation file doc/COMPAT-LAYERS
532 which contains some information about maintaining full build system
533 compatibility in addition to ABI/API compatibility.
535 Avahi 0.6, the "Goddag" release
536 ===============================
538 * Support for (read-only) wide area support. (i.e. DNS-SD over unicast DNS)
539 * Ported to FreeBSD, NetBSD, Darwin/MacOSX and to some extent OpenBSD
540 * Portability fixes for ARM CPUs
541 * Compatibility layers for the HOWL and Bonjour APIs
542 * Support for registering/browsing arbitrary records
543 * Proper support for DNS-SD service subtypes
544 * Native C implementations of the client utilities
545 * Now passes the Bonjour conformance test suite without any exceptions
546 * "Passive observation of failures"
548 * Many traffic reduction improvements
551 This release is not API/ABI compatible with Avahi 0.5. Please see
552 docs/API-CHANGES-0.6 for a rough overview over the changes.
558 * Fix browing in QT applications (was totally broken)
559 * Minor documentation update.
564 * This is a bug fix release, before the big changes coming in 0.6
565 * Fix reporting of the NO_DAEMON error
566 * Fix commit throttling algorithm for entry groups
567 * Fix counting of the number of resources in an entry group
569 Avahi 0.5, the 'Bom Dia' release
570 ================================
572 * New Mono bindings, allowing you to use Avahi from
573 any CLI language such as C#
574 * Attempt auto-detection of the D-BUS system bus address
575 * Include a 'cookie' in all published records which allows us
576 to reliably determine if a service is the same as another.
577 * Add API to determine if services are local
578 * Better support for threading with AvahiSimplePoll
579 * Add some new StringList functions to help binding to it in
581 * Various build and run-time bug fixes
583 Avahi 0.4, the 'Hyvää päivää' release
584 =====================================
586 * Renamed the include dirs for the Qt bindings to include the
587 version number, as they may diverge in future.
588 * Fix a critical bug in avahi-daemon triggered by configuring an interface
589 with various DHCP clients when you have no other active addresses which
590 caused avahi-daemon to abort.
591 * Move to using python-gdbm exclusivly for the service type database.
592 * Add support for SUSE
593 * Various fixes to the build system
595 Avahi 0.3, the 'Buenos Días' release
596 ====================================
598 * New integration library for QT main-loop applications.
599 * Fix a crash in avahi-dnsconfd
600 * Documentation Updates
601 * Fix building when you don't want Python DBUS or GTK
603 - Add new help option
604 - Fix handling of paths not starting with a /
605 - You can now specify the port and IP to bind to
606 - Add option to generate links with hostnames instead of IPs
608 Avahi 0.2, the 'Dzień Dobry' release
609 ====================================
611 * Unfortunately this release broke the API/ABI of libavahi-client
612 with the following function removals
614 Removal of these functions may affect users of the 0.1 API
615 - avahi_service_resolver_block()
617 The following functions were simply for debugging information
618 and their removal should not affect anyone
619 - avahi_entry_group_get_dbus_path()
620 - avahi_domain_browser_get_dbus_path()
621 - avahi_service_type_browser_get_dbus_path()
622 - avahi_service_browser_get_dbus_path()
624 Note that while the libavahi-client API changed slightly, the DBUS
625 API itself has only had additions and no existing definitions
628 * avahi-daemon will now ignore local IP addresses with the "link" scope
629 unless it is the only IP address on the interface.
630 * avahi-daemon will no longer fail to start if D-BUS is not
631 available (if configured with enable-dbus=warn)
632 * Fixed a potential crasher when resolving things in libavahi-core.
633 * New example demonstrating integration into glib applications
634 * Addtion of a set of convenience functions for AvahiStringList
635 avahi_string_list_find()
636 avahi_string_list_get_pair()
637 avahi_string_list_add_pair()
638 avahi_string_list_add_pair_arbitrary()
639 * Fixed a typo in avahi-glib.pc that stopped programs using
640 the GLIB api from compiling correctly
641 * A critical bug in the reflector was fixed where it may go into a
642 state of constantly flooding queries out to the network.
643 * Introduced new asynchronous resolver API
644 * libavahi-client gained an API for resolving HostNames and Addresses
645 in addition to the ServiceResolver provided in 0.1
646 * Added support for Arch and Gentoo linux distributions.
647 * Allowed configuration on non-supported distributions
648 * Fixed a critical bug where you cannot use more than one AvahiClient
649 or use it in an application already using D-BUS
650 * Fixed assembly of empty string lists to RFC compliant TXT records
651 * Added a new service type description database with human
652 understandable descriptions of services with translations.
653 * Fixed various minor memory corruption bugs
654 * Fixed an issue where Avahi might think it encountered a conflict
655 if the process or machine has been suspended
656 * Fixed compilation and runtime issues on 64-bit distributions
660 Avahi 0.1, the "Guten Tag" release
661 ==================================
663 The Avahi team would like to announce the immediate availability of
664 Avahi 0.1 "Guten Tag".
666 Avahi is a fully LGPL framework for Multicast DNS Service Discovery.
667 It allows programs to publish and discover services and hosts
668 running on a local network with no specific configuration. For
669 example you can plug into a network and instantly find printers to
670 print to, files to look at and people to talk to.
672 Avahi is designed to be compatible with the mDNS/DNS-SD specification
673 and boasts the following features
675 * Fully open source and freely available under the LGPL
676 * Full IPv4 and IPv6 support
677 * An embeddable mDNS stack
678 * Dynamic adjustment to network reconfiguration
679 * Daemon with DBUS API for desktop applications
680 * C library to interface with the DBUS API
681 * Compatible with other mDNS/DNS-SD implementations such as
682 Howl and Apple Bonjour (previously Rendezvous)
683 * Ability to correctly "reflect" mDNS between two or more LAN segments
684 * Ability to configure DNS servers based on mDNS/DNS-SD published
685 information, a feature that is very usefull on IPv6
686 which has no other mechanism for this.
687 * Combined with nss-mdns, allows hostname lookup such as
688 'laptop.local' without the configuration of a DNS server.
689 http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/nss-mdns/
690 * Easy integration into GLIB, GTK other mainloop applications.
691 * Documentation and examples of both developer APIs and utilities.
693 mDNS/DNS-SD is part of a larger set of specifications for easy
694 configuration of networking known as "ZeroConf"
695 (http://www.zeroconf.org/), with the aim of allowing you to plug into
696 a network and instantly be able to interact with its services.
698 Avahi was designed to be a fully free implementation, and is
699 available under the LGPL. Many other implementations of the mDNS/DNS-SD
700 specification were previously non-free, restricting their use in many
701 platforms such as the GNOME desktop and many distributions.
703 While Avahi is a 0.1 release, we feel it is feature complete and
704 available for immediate use, developers can make use of the Avahi
705 client library to provide above mentioned functionality in their
708 We unfortunately do not have a logo yet! We would love if someone
709 could suggest ideas for a logo or even design us one. If you think
710 you can help us out, you can contact us on our mailing list or by
711 emailing Trent Lloyd on lathiat@bur.st.
713 If you would like more information or help, you can subscribe
714 to our mailinglist, goto
715 http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/avahi
717 You can download Avahi 0.1 here
718 http://www.freedesktop.org/~lennart/avahi-0.1.tar.gz
720 You can also find out more information from our homepage
721 http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/Avahi
723 We would like to thank the following people for their
724 contribution to Avahi 0.1.
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